Optimal Time-Slots
Brendan McKeague
mckeague at iprimus.com.au
Thu Feb 23 08:28:34 PST 2006
In a two day open space events, are 1.5 hour
time-slots preferable to 1 hour slots?
Let me know the 'right' answer please.... or maybe not!
Brendan
At 10:49 PM 23/02/2006, you wrote:
>Andrew:
>
>Ive also seen, on two occasions, a breakout
>group of about 100 (in a 5-600 person
>event.) These groups seem to get along just
>fine even if it was a little hard for the
>outliers to hear. They both went for 1.5 hours
>and a bit beyond with some, but not a lot, of attrition.
>
>We know that the ideal group discussion is
>with 8-12 people (from the small group
>evidence). We know, from Wisdom of Crowds
>that hundreds or thousands in aggregated
>decision making do much better than the one
>expert (given the evidence). We really dont
>know how many people can be held together in
>collective focus consciously or
>unconsciously. 100 in a break out? 2000 in a
>OS event. A country? ???? Being happy with
>not-knowing allows for wonderful surprises.
>
>OSonOSinOZ sounds like it was a great stimulus for thinking!
>
>Larry
>
>Larry Peterson
>Associates in Transformation
>Toronto, ON, Canada
>416.653.4829
>
><mailto:larry at spiritedorg.com>larry at spiritedorg.com
>www.spiritedorg.com
>
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